[dirtboy]

After finding the 1912 Webley Revolver, staff at the shop in Earl Sholton, near Leicester called Leicestershire police to collect the weapon so it could be dismantled.

If that doesn't epitomize what has happened to England - a war hero's weapon dismantled - I don't know what does.

[andy58-in-nh]

It really does make no sense that the revolver was dismantled, and is explicable only by the bizarre anti-gun culture that now dominates England. Consider that the weapon’s caliber is 9mm x 16, which is not exactly a commonly-found cartridge these days. (In comparison, 9mm Parabellum is 9x19 and Makarov is 9x18). Even if one could buy pistol ammunition in the UK, which you cannot, finding suitable cartridges would be a remote possibility. In that respect, the gun, fully assembled threatened no one, except as a symbol.